Despite Woolhandler and Himmelstein's claim that single-payer reform is “the only way to fulfill the president's pledge of more coverage, better benefits, and lower costs” (1), there is another, better option. The Expanding Medical and Behavioral Resources with Access to Care for Everyone (EMBRACE) (2) plan for single-system reform would not only accomplish these goals but also create an infrastructure that would allow the U.S. health care system to seamlessly integrate 21st-century technologies like electronic health information platforms and evidence-based practice guidelines (3). Furthermore, it would accomplish this by including robust participation from affordable private insurance. Because most countries that have established a single-payer system eventually allow such participation (4), EMBRACE is a more realistic, real-world version of this system.